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Posted: Mar 6, 2024 - 5:51am

1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
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Posted: Mar 5, 2024 - 11:13am

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1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world.



Wow, that rings the nostalgia bell. A few years ago I threw out the Sinclair line printer that was collecting dust in the closet with nothing to attach it to. 
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Posted: Mar 5, 2024 - 9:57am

1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world.
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Posted: Mar 5, 2024 - 9:56am

1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
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Posted: Mar 5, 2024 - 9:53am

1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
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Posted: Mar 4, 2024 - 7:53am

On this day in history, March 4, 1952, Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis in church ceremony


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Posted: Mar 4, 2024 - 6:38am

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1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.



This is pretty astonishing.
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Posted: Mar 4, 2024 - 6:37am

1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
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Posted: Mar 4, 2024 - 6:34am

1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
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Posted: Mar 4, 2024 - 6:33am

1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
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Posted: Mar 3, 2024 - 8:12am

1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
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Posted: Mar 3, 2024 - 8:11am

1859 – The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, concludes.
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Posted: Mar 2, 2024 - 8:13am

On this day in history, March 2, 1965, 'The Sound of Music' de-butts in American movie theaters



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Posted: Mar 2, 2024 - 7:17am

1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
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Posted: Mar 1, 2024 - 5:52am

On this day in history, March 1, 1872, majestic Yellowstone becomes America's first national park


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Posted: Mar 1, 2024 - 5:45am

1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
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Posted: Mar 1, 2024 - 5:43am

1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
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Posted: Mar 1, 2024 - 5:40am

1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Posted: Feb 27, 2024 - 12:24pm

can't stop laughing...


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Posted: Feb 27, 2024 - 6:41am

1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility.
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